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G. A. BOWEN.

REFRIGERATOR.

Patented June 11, 1895'.

No..540,778. I

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Nrrn- TATES PATENT FFIQEQ GEORGE'A. BOWEN, OF FOND DU LAG, WISCONSIN,ASSIGNOR OF ONE HALF TO CHARLES L. MUENTER, OF SAME PLACE.

REFRIGERATOR.

SZPEGIFIATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,778, dated June 11,1895.

Application filed March 1 2 1 8 94.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. BoWEN,a citizen of .theUnited States, anda resident of Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac, and in theState of Wisconsin, havein vented certain new and useful Improvements inRetical longitudinal section of a portion of a refrigerator embodying myimprovements; Fig.

- 2, a vertical transverse section of the same;

Fig. 3, a detail plan view of an upper corner of a sectional ice-boxthat constitutes one of the essential features of said invention; Fig.4, an end elevation of a casting employed in the suspension of theice-box bottom, and Fig. 5 a side elevation of said casting.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents the casing andB thecover of a refrigerator embodying my improvements. As one of thefeatures of the present invention the metallic ice-box is madeseparable, the bottom 0 being herein shown rigidly secured to the casingand the body D detachably connected thereto. Consequently said box maybe readily cleaned inside and out. However the ice-box bottom may beotherwise than rigid in the casing if found convenient or desirable inpractice.

As a matterof preference the bottom 0 of the ice-box is provided withupwardly extended walls b and screws 0 or analogous devices are runthrough these walls and hollow castings E into the casing, it being alsopreferable to provide the outer ends of the castings with projections 01that embedthemselves in said casing. Eachof the castings E is preferablyclosed at its inner end, except for an opening that admits the passageof the screw or analogous supporting device, the projecfierial N0.503,24=9. (No model.)

tion d of said casting being on the edge of its open outer end. 7

The castings E or spacing devices above specified are simple, economicaland easily applied and aid in supporting the ice-box bottom because oftheir engagement with the refrigerator walls thus taking some of thestrain that would otherwise come entirely upon the screws 0 or analogoussupporting devices.

In hanging the bottom of the ice box it is given a sufficient pitchtoward the drain-pipe F of the refrigerator and an opening 9 in saidbottom registers with said pipe;

The upper removable portion or body of the ice box is provided at thetop with a continuous horizontal fiangef that is strengthened at thecorners by reinforcing plates g and rests on a correspondingcounter-sunk ledge h of the casing.

When the ice-box body is in place its lower end comes within thewallsot' the stationary bottom or such hangers as may be substituted forthe walls, and said end of the body as well as its supporting flange isstiffened by folding the metal on itself or in any other suitablemanner.

A drip-pan G is detachably connected to the bottom of the ice-box and asa matter of preference this result is accomplished by means of hook-likehangers i that extend upward from the drip-pan through a central 'opening in said ice-box bottom and engage a flangej around this opening. Thedrip-pan is also provided with a central opening guarded by a flange kand another opening in said pan registers with the drain-pipe abovespecified.

The ice-rack as herein shown embodies a corrugated plate H of metalturned up at one end and both sides to insure proper drainage, adeflector I for water of condensation on the under side of the plate,and supports J also secured to the under side of said plate, each ofthese supports being a strip of metal having rolled ends m, as shown inFig. 2, but I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself to anyparticular form of supports. It is to be observed that the turnedupsides of the plate are in the direction of the corrugations.

By having the bottom of the ice-box perma- 2 time h'ently secured to thecasing and the body removable I overcome the liability of the parts inconnection with said bottom becoming bent or displaced as is often thecase with an ordinaryice'box when detached from the casing, and there ismaterially less weight for the operator to handle this being of greatadvantage in refrigerators of large size.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A refrigerator having the bottom ofits icebox permanently secured to the casin g and the body portion ofthis box hung loose in said casing independent of said bottom.

2. A refrigerator having the bottom and body of its ice-box independentof each other, the formerbeing provided with upwardly extended wallsthat come outside the body-walls, spacing-devices inserted between thebottomwalls and adjacent casing, supporting, devices run through thesebottom-Walls and spacingdevices into the casing, and suitable means foreffecting a detachable union between the ice-box body and said casing.

3. A refrigerator having the bottom of its ice-box permanently securedto the casing, the body portion of the box independent of said bottom,and each wall of said body provided with a flange that rests on a ledgein the casing.

4:. A refrigerator having the bottom of the ice-box permanently securedto the casing, the body portion of the bOX independent of said bottom, aflange extending from each Wall of said body to rest on a lodge in thecasing, and reinforcing corner plates for the flanges.

5. A refrigerator having the bottom of its ice-box hung from suitablesupports in the casing, and the body portion of said box hung loose insaid casing independent of the bottom.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, atFond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac and State of \Visconsin, inthe presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. BOWEN.

Witnesses:

C. L. MUENTER, O. A. GALLOVVAY.

